From: Steve Chamberlain <sac@cygnus>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1992 19:22:41 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Don't core dump if no output section available for a symbol
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e7b4046cbfb5d78d6e41864da763c8ffaf09f23e;p=binutils-gdb.git

Don't core dump if no output section available for a symbol
---

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index d3e36e77358..e8f1935b5d0 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ Thu Feb 27 09:24:56 1992  Steve Chamberlain  (sac at thepub.cygnus.com)
 
 	* aoutx.h (translate_from_native_sym_flags): when creating an
 	alias symbol, fill in the section as undefined, rather than
-	leaving it blank
+	leaving it blank. If an output section can't be found for a
+	symbol, then don't core dump.
 
 Wed Feb 26 19:40:59 1992  Steve Chamberlain  (sac at thepub.cygnus.com)
 
diff --git a/bfd/aoutx.h b/bfd/aoutx.h
index 4fc8cd719a8..95c1a9278be 100644
--- a/bfd/aoutx.h
+++ b/bfd/aoutx.h
@@ -951,8 +951,19 @@ DEFUN(translate_to_native_sym_flags,(sym_pointer, cache_ptr, abfd),
       sym_pointer->e_type[0] = (N_UNDF | N_EXT);
     }    
   else {    
-      bfd_error_vector.nonrepresentable_section(abfd,
-						bfd_get_output_section(cache_ptr)->name);
+      if (cache_ptr->section->output_section) 
+      {
+	
+	bfd_error_vector.nonrepresentable_section(abfd,
+						  bfd_get_output_section(cache_ptr)->name);
+      }
+      else 
+      {
+	bfd_error_vector.nonrepresentable_section(abfd,
+						  cache_ptr->section->name);
+	
+      }
+      
     }
   /* Turn the symbol from section relative to absolute again */